Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-02-24
WHIT NE MAS BEEN SAVED.
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Peril ofs
man win One Rabbits Eye.

x,ta neurological Peril OfH
man win One Rabbits Eye.
New York Times II
IL Ia probable that no greater stroke OF |
fortune could have befallen Mr.. Charles
a Williams, of Minneapolis, than the re-
cant failure of a surgeon in this city 10 in
oert n rabbits eve 10 his head and maket
GROW there. MIR. Williams lost one OF his
own eyes when he was only IL years oia,
and having prejudice against glass eyes
on account of their unhappy habit OF try
iUp TO look around corners and OF gazing
hsayenward when the natural eye IS bent
upon the ground, his soul was filled with
hope when he learned that New YORK
ophthalmist was satisfied that he
oould transplant q rabbits eye to
the human head, and induce It TO take
root and grow. He came to this city,
and a large rabbit with lustrous
hazel ewes was selected for the victim.
Mr.. Williams was informed that there
was no hope of his being able to see with
1.-The rabbits eye, but that it would have a
more natural appearance than aglass eye,
land would conduct itself in harmony with
Ibis other organ Of vision. II is only fair
lto presume, however, that this was merely
la little subterfuge on the part of the sur
llpeon, to induce his patient TO submit 70
the operation; for If the optic nerve had
taken root and grown, and the eye had
! lived and fiourished, there is every
reason to believe that it would have con-
tinued to see as well from under Mr..
J williams eyelashes as from the rabbits.
Still il would have been only rabbits
eve after all, and whatever il saw would
have been seen from a rabbits standpoint.
Mr.. Williams must gradually hsge &C.
| auired the habits and mode of thought OF
a rabbit, Of least on that side of his body
most affected by the new eye, and this I'M
natural blending of human nature with
rabbit nature would have been far more
announcement than il he had had two
rabbits eyes, and had thus been wholly
metempsychosed. If, for instance, witt
this rabbit nature controlling him on on
side and the man nature on the other, h
had gone hunting and encountered fox
= the man part OF him would have been TO
!, shooting the fox, and the rabbit instinc
would have impelled him to quit tn
. neighborhood as rapidly and unostenta
Z tiously as possible. He would thus hav
4 been torn with conflicting emotions, an
4 few such experiences must have undei
p mined his health and broken him dow
physically and mentally.
NJ How would he have conducted himsel
I y whe,p walking through his own garden
iWopid the tender green lettuce and ii
: \ eaultAful red-veined beet tops most hay
G,sgfated the eye of the man side {
! tsled the dainty palate of the rabbi
4 she d But these things would have bee
tiyitl compared with Lis inevitable fee
\ ngs had hunger driven him 10 seek
iest4,rro-t, and had he there found
/ dead an dressed rabbit hanging by u
|. heels in lie window. The man side wou
~ have urged him to 20 in and eat, and Il
=. rabbit side would have torn him awl
r. with loathing and disgust. Such tria
he must in time have worn out his man
,. will force, and left the rabbit side in II
- ascendant, in which case he would ha
been liable at any moment to make invt
untary incursions upon the Minneapo
lawns, hopping about on all tours over
rich green grass, taking here nibble 81
there nibble, till at length his very a
pearanee might have changed with
instincts, his ears elongated and sto
h upright and the unhappy man have fall
a victim at last to some street dog. II
'le great peril Mr.. Williams has escaped
the failure of the rabbits eye.